[Survived]

A LLM is more like a CNC panel saw; feed a sheet in one end, stack up parts from the other.

It reduces craftsmanship to unskilled labor.

The design work and thinking happen somewhere else. The operator comes in, punches a clock, and chokes on MDF dust for 8 hours.

[CamperBob2]

No, the idea is that such a CNC saw shouldn't need an operator at all. To the extent it still does, the operator doesn't even need to be in the same town, much less the same building.

This is a GOOD thing.

[Survived]

Good or bad, converting craft work to production work is not making the craft worker more productive, it's eliminating the craft worker.

The unskilled operator's position is also precarious, as you point out, but while it lasts, it's a different and (arguably) less satisfying form of work.

The LLM is not a table saw that makes a carpenter faster, it's an automatic machine that makes an owner's capital more efficient.

[CamperBob2]

(Shrug) I don't know about "owners" and "capital," but used properly, they make me more efficient.